Wiktor Marzec - Rising subjects : the 1905 revolution and the origins of modern Polish politics

Russian and East European Studies

Jonathan Harris, Editor

Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260
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ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-4612-0
ISBN 10: 0-8229-4612-2

Cover art: Illustration from the cover of the SDKPiL clandestine journal Czerwony Sztandar from April 1905. Podlaska Digital Library Collection.
Cover design: Alex Wolfe

ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8748-2 (electronic)

Historians are lone wolves; sociologists more often work in packs. As I traversed both disciplines, even if I wrote alone I tried to discuss the results with as many people as possible. There is no better way to improve ones own work and to avoid blind alleys. This book is a product of an organic growth, which meanwhile resulted in many additional article-size studies, a research project which allowed me to gather primary sources, and a book in Polish that presented the initial findings for the purposes of this project. Thus many ideas came from consultations, talks, conference interventions, and private conversations that I am unable to recollect in detail, and it would be too cumbersome to list them here anyway. Many ideas presented in this study were suggested by generous commentators, and many resulted from consultations, reviews, or debates around the aforementioned additional products. I was lucky enough to receive generous support from various institutions apart from my irreplaceable alma mater, Central European University (CEU), where during my PhD studies I remained comfortably seated between my main Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Department of History, which graciously accepted my conspicuous presence. Judit Bodnr and Balzs Trencsnyi provided ongoing support. Brian Porter-Szcs and Theodore R. Weeks offered supportive, yet harsh critique and invaluable encouragement to go on with the project.

Additional research was performed thanks to research grants from the Polish National Science Center. The grant contracted as 2012/05/N/HS3/01158 allowed me to gather the vast bulk of my primary sources. I also borrowed some primary sources from a collaborative project contracted as 2011/03/B/HS6/01874, hosted and supervised by Professor Kaja Kamierska in the Department of Sociology of Culture at the University of Lodz, Poland. Final work on the book was made possible thanks to generous support by the same institution, contracted as 2017/27/B/HS6/00098 in the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, where I am now continuing to develop my research project, extending it through space and time.

My initial studies of the topic owed much to the faith and support of Kazimierz Kowalewicz at the University of Lodz. Later I often returned there, receiving constant support, understanding, and new ideas from Marek Czyewski, Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski, and Kaja Kamierska. In the meantime, I was hosted as a fellow or guest researcher in many places where numerous people offered me guidance, ideas, and critique: the Eisenberg Institute and the Department of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (Brian Porter-Szcs), the re:work Research Center at Humboldt University in Berlin (Andreas Eckert), the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder), and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. I made final adjustments during my stay at the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia (Diana Mishkova) and at the Center for Historical Research at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Alexander Semyonov). The thriving academic environment in all these institutions constantly nourished my thinking and opened many doors to my curiosity and will to read, talk, and write. Librarians in all those universities, archivists from the Polish National Library in Warsaw, and the state archives in Lodz and Warsaw were always supportive of my queries.

In the early years, I was supported by a virtuoso of the archive, who practically taught me how to move there, Kamil Piskaa. He recently made a great comeback, offering his disinterested support to track down the much-needed illustrations. In processing the material, Adam Musiaowicz and Izabela Smuga contributed their share. I presented and discussed various chunks of this study as conference presentations, separate articles, and chapters. I am unable to assign any clear priorities or list all meetings, workshops, and conferences, and thus I mention in alphabetic order all those who gave so generously of their time: Agnes Arndt, Volodymyr Artiukh, Jrg Baberowski, Arnd Bauerkmper, ukasz Biskupski, Eric Blanc, Robert Blobaum, Howard Brick, Kathleen Canning, John Clarke, Marek Czyewski, Mathieu Desan, Geoff Eley, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Jan Hennings, Stephan Ludwig Hoffman, Jan Ivfersen, Maciej Janowski, Don Kalb, Andrzej Maciej Kaniowski, Webb Keane, Mark Keck-Szajbel, Howard Kimeldorf, Jrgen Kocka, Aleksandra Kowalski, Grzegorz Krzywiec, Peter Linebaugh, Alf Ldtke, Brendan McGeever, Alexei Miller, Michael Miller, Diana Mishkowa, Daniel Monterescu, Jan-Werner Mller, Vlad Naumescu, Margrit Pernau, Jan Plamper, Gertrud Pickhan, Kamil Piskaa, Brian Porter-Szcs, Micha Pospiszyl, Kirill Postoutenko, Harsha Ram, Alfred Rieber, Jrgen Schmidt, Alexander Semyonov, Marsha Siefert, Ronald Grigor Suny, Keely Stauter-Halsted, George Steinmetz, Willibald Steinmetz, Krystian Szadkowski, Kamil miechowski, Jana Tsoneva, Balazs Vedres, Kathleen Wrblewski, Tomasz Zarycki, and Genevive Zubrzycki. Last but certainly not least, Paul Barron, Lindsay Curtis, James Hartzell, Sanjay Kumar, David Ridout, and Thomas Rooney helped me at various stages to make my writing understandable. The editors at University of Pittsburgh Press (Peter Kracht, Amy Sherman, and my copy editor, Carolyn Pouncy, among others) welcomed my manuscript with supportive critique and guided me patiently through all stages of the publishing process.

I owe special expressions of gratitude to my parents, who never failed to discuss crucial issues of Polish social and political life and provided essential support in the pivotal moments of my own academic biography.

On all possible levels: academically, intellectually, emotionally and organizationally, this work would not have begun without my former coauthor, discussant, and first reader, Agata Zysiak. Claudia Eggart has since given me fresh insights, renewed faith, and the last push without which this book would not have been finished.